Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Imperfections create character.

I love the flaws and foibles of people - I'm much more interested in that than perfections.

Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

Everyone is normal until you get to know them.

People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.

Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

People are incorrigibly themselves.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

God hadn't made me handsome, but he'd given me something, I always felt: funny bones.

I think we go to our graves being a bit weird.

I just feel like people are who they are.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

Flaws are really interesting.

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

It's our flaws who make us who we are.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Perfect is boring, human is beautiful